Is a project ahead or behind is fundamental to project management that is run on a budget with estimated hours and a fixed completion date. There are some projects that work on the “scrum/agile” method where budget vs actual and completion dates are not relevant: but many projects (such as we do all the time) most certainly run on the classic estimated vs actual budget vs completion, and fixed task due dates and milestones. So I’m surprised Asana does not have built-in % Complete and Budget vs Actual Hrs, as it’s target market appears to be the broad scope (no pun intended) of project management.
The Asana2Go add-on is very nice and does some of this. But providing % complete rollups and hours vs budget rollups should be standard functionality because it is central and standard to project management.
Request:
- Add a standard % Compl (Progress) field at the Task Level (I think it would be too much to try to do this down the entire seven or so levels that Asana supports).
- Add a % Complete (Progress) rollup bar with the % Complete displayed like 32%, at the Section Level
- Add a “% Complete (Progress)” rollup bar with the % Complete displayed like 32%, at the Project Level
- Add standard fields Budget Hrs, Actual Hrs, and % Compl (Hrs) at the Task level. % Complete is calculated when both Budget and Actual are <>0.
- Add an % Complete (Hours) rollup bar with the % Complete displayed like 32%, at the Section Level
- Add an % Complete (Hours) rollup bar with the % Complete displayed like 32%, at the Project Level
7 Add a tab Budget vs Actual which can be hidden or used depending on the need. This tab would show the two rollup bars, the two %Complete numbers, then show a calculation of whether the project is running ahead, close (± 5%), or behind. - Enable a standard field “Progress vs Hrs” field which is automatically populated Ahead (Green), Close (Yellow) or Behind (Red).